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Phineas & Ferb: A Hard Day's Knight/I Brobot
Reviewed: 01/05/2014
You'll Be Sleeping Like A Brobot!
So yeah; we are now deep into the first season as we have episode 1-8 (10b) and 1-31 (10a) on the animation paper today. First; Phineas & Ferb go to England and create their own fair which causes Candace to be a part of a jousting tournement. All this while Perry hunts down Doctor Doofenshmirtz in an evil scientist's convention. Then we see Phineas & Ferb clone themselves to get more projects done while Doctor Doofen creates a magnet to erase messages he sent to his girlfriend. Yeah; this is whacky. Let's rant on shall we...?!
A Hard Day's Knight is written by Bobby Gaylor, Martin Olson, Jon Barry and Mike Roth. Jon has only three credits: Phineas & Ferb (and 2nd Dimension of course), Second City This Week and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. Mike began his career as a character layout designer in The Wild Thornberry's Movie in 2002 and from there: Rugrats Go Wild, Spongebob Squarepants (and movie), Camp Lazlo, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Regular Show (most recent credit) and Go Tell Ricky Scrotum as a Goodwill Employee. The Proud Family is his DTVA debut. That's it. I, Brobot is written by Kent Osborne, Aliki Theofilopoulos and Martin Olson. Kent according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Osborne's first film role was a small part in School Ties (1992) with Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Chris O'Donnell. His character Emile in School Ties inspired Osborne to write the screenplay for the film Dropping Out, in which he starred alongside David Koechner, Adam Arkin, John Stamos, Katey Sagal, and Fred Willard.[2] His brother Mark directed the film, which had its world premiere at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.[4] Osborne served as writing partner for the comedian Rob Schneider. After recurring appearances on the TBS show Dinner and a Movie, he hosted a spinoff TBS program, Movie Lounge, beginning in 1998.[5] From 2002 to 2005, Osborne was a writer for SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon. He received two Emmy Award nominations for his writing on the show, in 2003 and 2004.[6] He was also one of the writers for the theatrical film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). Osborne went on to write for other animated series appearing on the Cartoon Network, including Camp Lazlo (Emmy nomination in 2006[7]), The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (Emmy nomination in 2010[8]), and Adventure Time (Emmy nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2013[9]).
He also wrote and storyboarded several episodes of the first season of Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb in 2008. Osborne has been a screenwriter and actor in a number of films associated with the mumblecore movement, including several directed by Joe Swanberg. He co-wrote and acted in Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) and had a supporting role in Nights and Weekends (2008). For Uncle Kent, which debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Osborne served as co-writer and co-producer, as well as playing the title role, loosely based on his own life.[10][11] In 2011, he starred in writer/director Amber Sealey's film How to Cheat.[12] Osborne and his castmates won the award for Best Performance in the Narrative Competition of the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival.[13] He began his career as Emile in School Ties in 1992. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Wild Canaries as Calvin is his most recent credit. He has 31 acting credits, 16 writing credits, 9 storyboard credits, 8 other credits, 10 production credits and three direction credits to his resume. Aliki started as an inbetweener for Hercules from Disney in 1997. From there she did Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, Home On The Range, Chalkzone, Catscratch, Random! Cartoons, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Johnny Test, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Fantasia 2000, and her most recent credit Doctor Lollipop. Phineas & Ferb is her DTVA debut and only appearance. She also did voices for SD Gundam Force (Zero and Bellwood) television series and video game. That's about it basically. Story editing for both episodes are done by Martin Olson. Animation is done by Rough Draft.
A Hard Day's Knight: We begin this one with a shot of the streets of England. I know this because we see the entire Flynn-Fletcher family stuffed in a black taxi together. Lawrence and Linda are talking about having family in England; as I discover that Lawrence's parents are living here; and that they are spending the holidays here. We then see shots of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, the white cliffs of Dover (AHA! Another one to add to the TaleSpin trivia and locations pages; under Bygones) and Stonehenge, thus setting a record for the most LANDMARKS OF THE DAYS in one single sequence. Then Phineas points out that England has gotten a lot smaller as we see that all of these landmarks are just part of a theme park. HAHA! So we head to a brick house on a quiet dirt road (with a black grass like roof) as the car stops and out of the house come an old couple. The male is thin with balding white hair and a mustache and wearing an eyepiece on his left eye; he's wearing brown pants that stretch from his upper chest right down to his lower legs, a purple vest, red bowtie and a diamond design brown coat. He is Grandpa Reginald Fletcher and Grandpa Reginald Fletcher is voiced by Malcolm McDowell and according to IMDB: Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Charles and Edna Taylor. His father was a publican and an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways and fought against it. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life, so Malcolm was packed off to boarding school at age 11. He attended the Tunbridge Boarding School and the Cannock House School in Eltham, Kent. At school, he was beaten with the slipper or cane every Monday for his waywardness. Whilst at school, he decided that he wanted to become an actor; it was also around this time that his love for race cars began. He attended the London Academy of Music and Art to study acting.
Meanwhile, he worked at his parents' pub but lost his job when the pub went bankrupt, his father drinking all the profits. He then had a variety of jobs, from coffee salesman to messenger. His first big-screen role was in Poor Cow (1967), although his two-minute scene was ultimately cut from the completed film. Soon after, he caught the attention of director Lindsay Anderson who cast him in the role of a rebellious student in his film If.... (1968). The film catapulted Malcolm to stardom in Britain but failed everywhere else. He was so enthusiastic about the film's success that he wanted to do another right away. He began writing what would become the semi-autobiographical O Lucky Man! (1973). Meanwhile, he starred as the infamous Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick's controversial A Clockwork Orange (1971), a role that caused him to be typecast as a manic psychopathic villain. In early 1976, he spent nearly a year working on what would later be one of the most infamous films of all time, the semi-pornographic Caligula (1979), financed by Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione. Around that time, the British film industry collapsed, forcing him to flee to America to continue working. His first American film was Time After Time (1979). He then did Britannia Hospital (1982), the last part of Lindsay Anderson's working-class trilogy that started with If.... (1968). In the mid-1980s, the years of alcohol and drug abuse, including $1000 a week on cocaine, caught up with him. Years of abuse took its toll on him; his black hairs were now grey. Looking older than he really was, nobody wanted to cast him for playing younger roles. The big roles having dried up, he did many B-rated movies. The 1990s were kinder to him, though. In 1994, he was cast as Dr. Tolian Soran, the man who killed Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was back on the track, playing villains again.
He played another in the classic BBC miniseries Our Friends in the North (1996). Today, with more than 100 films under his belt, he is one of the greatest actors in America. He still does not have American citizenship, but he likes the no-nonsense American ways. He currently resides in the northern suburb of Los Angeles, California. He began his career as Crispin Ryder in Crossroads in 1964. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and only appearance. The Spider (Von Wessel), Soul Of A Spy (Henry), Wizardream (Wizard Mangodor), Bereave (Garvey), Stuck (Thaddius Gault), Walk of Fame (Evan Polus), and Mozart In The Jungle as Thomas are his most recent credits. He has 230 acting credits, 74 Self credits, four production credits (The Employer, Suing The Devil, Red Roses & Petrol and O Lucky Man!), and one narration credit (Blue Gold: World Water Wars) to his resume. We also see an old female wearing a purple dress, pantyhose, purple shoes and a coat with purple earrings. She's also wearing a stylish hat with a red feather on; and while she is of normal size in the front; she has a rather large backside for some reason. She is Grandma Winifred Fletcher who is voiced by Jane Carr. She doesn't require a tribute since she voiced Dan & Ann Chovie in Fish Hooks. So we meet and greet as Winifred is putting on a fake mask and mustache on Ferb and claiming that he is getting there. She also wants Ferb to keep the stuff since she has loads of them. That was insulting; Ferb isn't like Reg madam. If he was; Ferb would speak more than TWO lines per episode. So Candace waves hello and she's a beautious princess; which I totally disagree with as Lawrence and Linda are driven away in the taxi since they are going to an antique convention somewhere. Phineas then points to something which is behind the house and we zoom out to notice a huge castle which the couple points out is the castle of Lord and Lady Pipping. Reg claims that it was once owned by the Black Knight. DUM! DUM! DUM! Phineas asks about said knight and Reg calls this a tale of valor and so we hit the water spread effect flashback!
So we head to the countryside and see the black knight on horseback as we discover that he represents Worcestershire which the fools pronouce differently. The black knight has four gray armored dudes on horseback following him as they are going to fight the black dragon of death. And they all bail on him. Nuts! So he gets chased by the Hounds of Hell (BS&P alert: They are the Hounds of Heck in this show) because his armor is made of recycled dog food cans. The black dragon spits flame during the chorus as apparently; the hounds are babyfaces to the knight, after acting all like heels to him. So we return to reality (no, not really) as we see a bronze statue of the black knight and his hounds of heck (their words, not mine) on the final charge, and then we pan left to see the black dragon statue who is roasting the black knight on an open flame. HAHA! Apparently; the black knight's ghost still haunts the moors; riding his horse with his hound looking for that bastard dragon to slay. Phineas then has a BIG IDEA OF DOOM which is to host a medieval tournament like the knights of yore. He wants jousting and not taking baths; while Reg claims that he's way ahead of him on that department. So we cut to Candace on her "smart" phone as she is talking to Stacey since she is bored out of her skull. Yeah; what a shock? Then things get more interesting as we see that Candace is noticing in the background, a tennis court where a blue shirt blond teenager (who looks like a rich kid's Jermey) cosplaying a knight with his stuffy Duckworth like butler (only a real human instead of a dognose). We discover that the butler's name is Stubbings as the blond haired boy is Charles Pipping while Charles is laughing about running Stubbing through with the tennis racket. Sure that is so funny Charles. No, not really. Stubbing is voiced by Tim Curry while...
Charles is voiced by Dominic Wood and according to IMDB: Dominic Wood was born on January 3, 1978 in Devon, England as Dominic Simon Wood. He is an actor and writer, known for da Dick & Dom Dairies (2009), The Legend of Dick and Dom (2009) and Brainiac's Test Tube Baby (2006). He has been married to Sandi Lee Hughes since 2005. He started his career on Can't Cook, Won't Cook in 1995. Diddy Dick & Dom as Diddy Dom was his official acting debut in 2007. He also appeared in Horrid Harry: The Movie and Banana in Pyjamas in 2011. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and only appearance. He also wrote additional material for Dick & Dom's Funny Business in 2011. Nine acting credits, one writing credit and 48 Self credits to his resume. Sunday Brunch and Takeshi's Castle - Rebooted as the narrator are his most recent credits. So Stubbing proclaims that Charles has mastered the rules of tennis and Candace is hiding behind the bushes, telling Stacey to call back. Stubbing brings out the OUT OF NOWHERE silver platter and opens the dome to reveal a tennis ball. He calls this a serve and claim that he has been punned. This is not funny, sadly because Charles still laughs at it. Charles; you need to get away from that castle STAT! So we head back to a far shot of Phineas & Ferb's house as two trucks back into the backyard of the house; as both are from some store that sells knight gear and other medevial stuff. Phineas is dressed up like a fool; complete with cheese twin bells on the hat. I love real spots that aren't supposed to be real spots. So we bring in lumber and suckling pigs; which Phineas notices one of them carried by some giant farmer dude wearing a black shirt and overall; is not suckling. Phineas asks what does he look like, a fool? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love projecting comments that aren't supposed to be projecting comments. So the farmer puts an apple in the pig's mouth and walks off with it. Phineas is feeling better about this as we see Ferb dressed up like a goofy combination of KISS and Asteroth from Soul Caliber 2.
Phineas then asks where Perry is which automatically telegraphs the point that Perry is going to be Agent P right now. So we head on the road as Perry is riding on the top of the London's famed double decker red bus (which is roofless mind you) as he flies up with his jetpack. He then goes towards a lamp post and chucks the jetpack away. Perry then goes through the glass lamp part and shimmys down the inside of the lamp pole and somehow makes it into OWCA headquarters. Or as it's called in 1991; DARKWING...DUCK's secret hideout. Perry plops into a seat in front of the giant screen as Monogram apologizes to Perry and blows off the metric system. Oh yeah; you can kiss my ass Major! See what I did there? Monogram tells Perry that Doofen is in London at an evil scientist's convention and Perry is going undercover disguised as the evil Doctor Lloyd Wexler. Swell; he's being sent undercover for no reason at all. Couldn't you at least say that Doofen is planning to take over the convention and beat up all the evil scientists? That would be a good reason to send Perry in. And of course; we get the logic break of doom as a fat man who looks like Norton Nimuel from Rescue Rangers only with a white shirt and underwear tied up in a chair to Perry's left. Yawn. Monogram wishes him good luck and we head back to the field as Phineas has a box which contains wooden horse parts. He puts them together and suddenly, the horse neighes and jumps up. Pfft; whatever. Candace demands answers to this outrage and Phineas answers it for me in a calm and serious manner. HAHA! Candace wants them to stop acting like freaks; and then Charles shows up and Candace stammers like an idiot. Charles addresses himself as Charles Pipping The Fourth and I shudder to think who the first three were. I just realized that Phineas has changed clothes three times in a row as he was in normal clothes here and then is with Ferb dressed up like French jugglers juggling balls while rolling on a bigger ball. Candace claims that she is the first; which is disappointing.
Phineas calmly explains to Charles that they are putting on a medieval tournament and Candace is about to blow it off when Charles cuts her off and claims that it's the most brillant idea in years. He is so easily amused. Candace is so insecure that she laughs while Phineas is now juggling orange rings. Charles wants to use the castle as a backdrop and Candace can play the stereotypical damsel in distress which Candace blinks her eyes for three seconds and then accepts it. Damn; even this cartoon is putting females into rigid gender roles. I guess Candace isn't enlightened enough. Anyhow; we head to the EVIL-CON building as we go to the desk as one of the desk clerks is checking on the ID card which reads Doctor Lloyd Wexler and on the bottom of the card, it reads: Not A Platypus. Then stop doing Platypus spots Wex! Ooops; sorry. My "Not A Monkey" reflex for Fang in Dave The Cleaning Barbarian of Laughs got the best of me there. He then yells at Perry to wait a minute as we see Perry dressed up as Lloyd and other than the green skin and duck bill, he's not too far off. So the desk clerk (which has brown hair and looks like a geek) gives him an evil button to pin on and does. Perry walks away and we head to a castle tower as Candace is looking in the mirror wearing stereotypical purple fair maiden clothing and declaring Charles the winner of the tournament. The British Open? Oh wait; that's golf, my mistake. She's wearing white shoes as she ponders about this backfiring on her; and then blows it off. So we head to ground level in front of the castle as Charles is noticing Phineas & Ferb trying to do the spot from A Hard Daze Knight with Calla and Gruffi with the knight machine dude. Phineas gets the head because he talks while Ferb gets the bottom because he has skinner legs which Ferb looks at. So we go to the far shot to see Candace calling for Charles; but they cannot hear her. Candace is pissed as she goes to the door; but it's locked tight. Which begs the obvious question: HOW THE F DID SHE GET INTO THE TOWER? What a stupid logic break that was?!
So Candace goes to the window and really yells at Charles; which Phineas replies that she's really getting the "damsel in distress" part. That's horrifying. So Candace is angry and we have another stupid logic break as there is a black knight suit OUT OF NOWHERE with a spear. We are stooping to Teddy Ruxpin shot continuity at this point. Candace tries to get the spear but it's stuck on the black knight's hand, so Candace takes the suit of armor which is much bigger than she is and rams it trough the door; smashing it to pieces like a door from Mister T: The Animated Series. None of this makes any sense and it's clear that the only reason they did it is so Candace can trip and take some nasty bumps on the stairs and land inside the suit of black armor and then have the black helmet slam onto her head. The bumping and spot was great; but so contrived and forced in the setup. So Candace grunts like a maniac and walks punch drunk towards outside as Phineas and Ferb calls this spot distrubing. Oh come on Phineas! The only thing distrubing about this is you're doing the same spot from Gummi Bears and is going to be on Ferb's back like Kit was on Baloo's shoulders in War of The Weirds. Charles leaves stage left to get his suit of armor and Candace comes back from the right side and Phineas notices her and thinks she is Charles despite the fact that Charles went west and Candace was from the EAST! Good job in making Phineas look stupid. I thought that kids were always supposed to be logical and smart? I know this is a logic break because Phineas wants to get Charles on his high horse and do a practice run. So we head inside EVILCON~ and we see Perry Wexler reading the EVILCON guide of doom which has a circular devil shape on the front page and a neon green target on the back. So suddenly, Doctor Doofen comes in and exposes Perry! And as Perry stops reading and looks up; Doofen proclaims that he is Lloyd Wexler his boyhood hero in evil science. I wish for once that they just brought Norton Ninmuel back for one appearance because it's clear who Lloyd Wexler is modeled after. It's not like Norton is copyrighted or anything since Disney OWNS the character.
So we exchange notes as Doofen claims that he wrote a thesis on one of his ransom notes. Perry is wearing a matching white coat as he tries to leave, but Doofen grabs him by the coat and then Doofen gets all emotion and wants to hang out with him today. AW! That is so cute; I can almost forgive him for being an evil scientist. Almost. More blinking eye sounds as Perry sweat on cue and then we head to the MAIM EVENT; which is the jousting tournamet between Phineas Ferb and "Chuck" Candace; as they brought out the cheesy wearing trumpet players and about 17 people showed up. That is disappointing since Wini is one of them! Reginald is wearing a emperor's outfit with crown on head as he is apparently chose to side with the black knight. Reginald proclaims that the contest shalt begin and everyone cheers except for Winifred who is drinking tea throughout this whole thing. Reginald asks if Phineas is ready; so Phineas asks Ferb if he's ready and the middle opens to reveal Ferb's arm giving the thumbs up. Reginald asks if the black knight is ready and Candace grunts. Reginald proclaims that this is the spirit (yeah; they basically used the same line the store clerk used in Toy To The World) and slaps the horse's ass. The horse runs towards Phineas, Phineas goes away with his horse and they rush towards each other. Now; here's what happens next: Candace gets bumped off of her horse. Candace lands in the catapult. Candace gets catapulted right into the castle tower. Candace bumps around until she makes it to the stairs. Candace tries to balance herself between the door frame. Candace fails and bumps off-screen down the steps and out of the castle. Candace takes a huge bump and flies into the sky and lands perfectly on her horse. AWESOME! And then the horse bumps Candace off and we do the exact same spot AGAIN! Almost the same spot again; some of the shots were snipped for time as Candace lands on her horse. Her horse gets pissed as she rides with Candace over the rock fence and out of sight. Everyone but Winifred cheers because she likes to drink teas. Or something.
So Phineas assumes that he won; and then Charles on horseback arrives with Stubbing holding a platter. The dome opens and his lance is in there; thus proving that his lance is retractable. Which is a neat way of storing the damn thing. I know the lances are candy cane colored to please BS&P; but I ignored this because, well; it's Phineas & Ferb and they love colors. Or something. Phineas is confused by all this as Reginald thinks it could be the Black Knight; but then he wonders where the Hounds of Hell (my words, not his) are. That leads to on the road as Candace is riding a horse out of control as a gravy truck and an Animal Control truck are riding together heading towards her. Oh; this is not contrived in the very least, no siree! So the gravy truck tries to put on the brakes; but the truck slides to the right (remember that cars drive on the left side of the road in this country) and bumps into the Animal Control truck which causes the gravy container to bounce into the air and crash right onto Candace which would have killed her and her horse in any other universe. However; they get sprayed with gravy and the horse flees towards town as a bunch of dogs get out of the back of the animal control truck and chase them throughout town. One of the males claims that it's the ghost of the black knight and his hounds of heck (his words, not mine). I think this is where Barry Bostwick's cameo is penciled in... Announcer is voiced by Barry Bostwick and according to IMDB: Tall (6' 4"), agile, energetic, and ever-so-confident as both actor and singer, especially on the award-winning Broadway stage, Barry Bostwick possesses that certain narcissistic poise, charm and élan that reminds one instantly (and humorously) of a Kevin Kline -- both were quite brilliant in their respective interpretations of The Pirate King in "The Pirates of Penzance". Yet, for all his diverse talents (he is a Golden Globe winner and was nominated for the Tony Award three times, winning once), Barry is indelibly caught in a time warp.
Even today, 35 years after the fact, he is indelibly associated with the role of nerdy hero Brad Majors in the midnight movie phenomena The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). While it is extremely flattering to be a part of such a cult institution, Barry's acting legacy deserves much more than this. He was born Barry Knapp Bostwick on February 24, 1945, in San Mateo, California, one of two sons born to Henry "Bud" Bostwick, a city planner, and his wife Betty. A student at San Mateo High School, he and his elder brother Peter use to put on musicals and puppet shows for the neighborhood kids. Barry attended San Diego's United States International University's School for the Performing Arts in 1967, and switched from music to drama during the course of his studies. He also worked occasionally as a circus performer, which would come in handy on the musical stage down the line. He subsequently moved to New York and attended the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. Making his stage debut at age 22 in a production of "Take Her, She's Mine," Barry performed in a number of non-musical roles in such productions of "War and Peace" (1968) and "The Misanthrope (1968). Making his 1969 Broadway debut in "Cock-a-Doodle Dandy", which ran in tandem with "Hamlet" in which he was featured as Osric, it was his portrayal of the swaggering, leather jacket-wearing 50s "bad boy" Danny Zuko in the 1972 Broadway high-school musical smash "Grease" that put Barry's name prominently and permanently on the marquee signs. Originating the role, he was nominated for a Tony but lost out that year to the older generation (Phil Silvers for "A Funny Thing Happened..."). In the midst of all this star-making hoopla, Barry was also breaking into films with a minor role in Jennifer on My Mind (1971) and leading parts in the comedy spoofs Road Movie (1974) and The Wrong Damn Film (1975).
It all paled after winning the role as Susan Sarandon's simp of a boyfriend in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), which featured a delicious Tim Curry camping it up as a transvestite monster-maker. The movie, based on the macabre 1973 British stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show," packed the midnight movie houses with costumed fans replicating every move and, word and offering puns and props aplenty in recapturing the insanity of the show. While the "Rocky" association hit like a tornado, Barry ventured on and tried to distance himself. He created sparks again on Broadway, garnering a second Tony nomination for the comedy revival "They Knew What They Wanted" in 1976. He finally took home the trophy the following year for the musical "The Robber Bridegroom" (1977), which relied again on his patented bluff and bravado as a Robin Hood-like hero. Following top roles in the musicals "She Loves Me" and "The Pirates of Penzance", Barry turned rewardingly to film and TV. The two-part feature Movie Movie (1978), which played like an old-style double feature, was a great success, performing alongside esteemed actor George C. Scott. Barry excelled in both features, but especially the musical parody. He fared just as well on the smaller screen in TV movies, playing everything from historical icons (George Washington) to preening matinée idols (John Gilbert), and winning a Golden Globe for his role as a military officer in the epic miniseries War and Remembrance (1988). A variety of interesting roles followed in glossy, soap-styled fare, farcical comedies and period drama. A welcomed return to Broadway musicals in the form of "Nick & Nora" (he as sleuth Nick "The Thin Man" Charles) was marred when the glitzy production folded after only nine perfs.
Instead, the prematurely grey-haired actor found steadier success in sitcoms as a smug comedy foil to Michael J. Fox playing Mayor Randall Winston for six seasons in Spin City (1996). He later enjoyed a recurring role as a dauntless attorney on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). Then again, Barry could be spotted pitching items in commercials or hamming it up in family-oriented Disneyesque entertainment in the "Parent Trap" and "101 Dalmatian" mold. In 1997, Bostwick was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 10 days later had his prostate removed. The operation was successful and in 2004, he won the Gilda Radner Courage Award from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Just a year earlier he appeared on an episode of "Scrubs" as a patient also having prostate cancer. Barry married somewhat late in life. For a brief time he was wed to actress Stacey Nelkin (1987-1991), but has since become a father of two, Brian and Chelsea, with second wife Sherri Jensen, an actress who appeared with Barry in the TV movie Praying Mantis (1993). Barry began his career in The Klowns television movie in 1970. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and only appearance (Unless you count 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventures of course). The Scropion King: The Lost Throne is his most recent credit. He has 129 acting and 49 Self credits to his resume. So we get an outside shot of the EVILCON~ building as there are purple shadows dotted in front of the drive thru area. So we head inside as Doofen has a bunch of helium balloons which he loves to be surround with as well as evil. So they make it to the book section and Doofen takes out a book; which we discover is Wexler's autobiography. Doofen lets go of the balloons and they go into the air because they are evil helium balloons. So Doofen gives Perry the book and is so happy about being here and seeing all this evil that he wants him to read portions of his own autobiography. UH OH!
But before he does that; he grabs a baseball cap that sezs I Heart Evil and a teddy bear which is symbolizing the death of innocence with anime cross eyes and a tongue sticking out to indicate that it's dead. That was funny. So Perry starts from paragraph four sweating and then he reads in a normal toned voice about removing the shackles of introspect to gain the charm of malevolence. We then discover that Perry is actually lip synching to a DVD Player (which does video and CD audio no less) in the backpack; and apparently, it's one from the 1950's because it skips. A LOT! After all of this teary eyed stuff from Doof; he questions the number of specs in the line as Perry takes the books and bashes the DVD player which kills it dead. Perry sweats and then rips off the disguise blowing his cover. Doofen is SHOCKED because Wexler is a platypus. It's only when he puts on the hat; that Doofen realizes that it is Agent P. Doofenshmirtz admits that he was too stupid to notice the obvious anthro nature of Wexler and his size; and asks Perry if this is the point that he surrenders. Again; what is the point of apprehending Doofenshmirtz here? So we zoom out as Doofen blows off surrendering because they are in the middle of a weapons expo. Which is EVIL~! So Perry and Doofen climb into giant robot mecha as it's the giant black dragon robot against Queen Elizabeth The First; with BLACK ARMS OF PEPPER STEEL BABEE! This would have been more awesome; if we didn't see the Queen's robot that Doofen got in to begin with. There was no point of Doofen stammering here because we already saw the robot when we zoomed out with Doofen saying that they are in a evil weapons expo. So Doofen asks Perry to switch robots; even saying pretty please with a sugar on top. This is absolutely embarrassing; but in a good way. So Perry get out of his robot dragon and Doofen gets out of the queen robot and they switch robots. Yeah; this was dumb, but it was cute. So Doofen has the black dragon robot and wants Perry to realize that his girly robot is no match for his fire breathing shadow dragon.
So the Queen shoots purple lasers right into the control center where Doof is sitting; just to make him sell in such a bad fashion that I was laughing my ass off. Doofen calls this totally unfair as Queen Liz 1 punches the dragon in the face and they destroy the EVILCON building of course. Damn; that is going to cost an arm and a leg to get that thing back on it's feet again. Doofen proclaims that she might have laser; but his can breathe fire and he pushes the levers and the flamethrower fires right through Doofen's control center as Doofen screams in a funny fashion for about 20 seconds before it finally stops. Doofen is somehow still alive from this with his hair acting as a lit candle wick. Doofen calls this a really stupid design; which indicates that Gyro Gearloose was behind it. ZAP! OUCH! Ummmm...So we head back to the jousting event as it's Charles VS Phineas Ferb and for no good reason; Phineas & Ferb are sideways popping up from the hands as they rush forward and we do the collison spot complete with the FCC Friendly Clouddust of Death; and apparently, both horses are down as Phineas & Ferb have somehow managed to get back to their normal positions in the knight armor. Reginald declares this one a draw since both knights went down; Winifred drinks tea still as the crowd pops. Yeap; they are easily amused. Smart marks would have booed that finish out of the building. So we head to a skyline of London as Queen Robot and Dragon Robot are pounding at each other; then we zoom out to see it's on the news from the VBBC. I'm guessing that this is Video BBC on Youtube. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! We see a man with almond hair and a blue suit proclaiming that they are dueling to the death (death reference #3 for the show) and then just stares for a bit; finally going to the next news segment as Jane Erye is going to get killed in a reality television show. Ooooookkkkkkkaaaaayyyyy. I think the Monty Python jokes are better served in science and politics than in entertainment. So the fight continues throughout the countryside as homes are being destroyed and denizens are screaming and running.
The robots manage to get on the road just as the black taxi car shows up. Lawerence is amazed by this as he claims that a new season of Jane Eyre is being filmed. In other words; Jane Eyre is basically a female version of the Power Rangers. That was funny! So both robot fly into the sky as they punch each other, and then Doofen remembers that the wrestler beats the boxer and puts on a side headlock. Doofen proclaims that she is no match for him and then the queen robot breaks the side headlock. You know you are a jobber for life when THAT happens! So the queen robot suddenly channels Grubby and gains six arms and then punches the dragon robot so hard that Doofen pushes the purple radar like button which so happens to be the self-destruct button. Doofen is pissed as he bangs the console and pushes another button which is the eject button. The voice tells him to remember to pack a parachute. I'm cartain Berry Botswick is voicing these voices as Doofen's chair get rejected and Doofen is thrown into the air as he blows the voice off for not telling him sooner. So we return to the jousting arena as the crowd is popping and throwing roses at Charles, Phineas and Ferb. All three babyfaces bow to the crowd and then somehow Candace reappears on horseback with the hounds of hell as Reginald notices right away. Then the dragon robot free falls to the ground (as the voice tells us to call the help desk for a parachute) and splats on the grounds. The black knight rushes to the dragon and the dragon robot does a self-destruct sequence and blows up. The horse is dead supposely as Candace gets blown right out of her armor and she takes the exact same bumps as she did when she was bounced off her horse (the one where she flies into the castle tower and bumps down the stairs) and ends up in Charles' arms. That was even better than the second go around as Candace is roughed up; but seems to be happy to be in the arms of her prince Charming. Then we see the black taxi arrive as Linda and Lawerence come out of the car. Lawerence shows off his bought antique which is an 19th century barometer; which means Lawrence is a weather reporter.
I might as well get this voice out of the way...The Farmer's Wife is voiced by Jennifer L. Hughes and her resume is like this: The debut was A Goofy Movie as a production assistant in 1995. Phineas & Ferb (along with Phineas & Ferb: Across the Second Dimension) is her DTVA debut, only appearance and most recent credit. Other credits: Tarzan (voice, production assistant), Mulan (production assistant), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (production assistant), Rocko's Modern Life (Singer, acting debut), That One Summer (Nurse) and Frozen Stupid (Hostess). That's it. According to IMDB: Went to California Institute of the Arts and studied acting (1984-86). Worked on the production side at several animation companies including Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, Universal Studios, Duck Soup Produckions and The Walt Disney Company. Acted in small roles in the 80s and 90s and began to do voice over work in animation and commercials. Appeared in two films starring Earnest Borgnine while moonlighting as an infant apparel designer/manufacturer for the Stylease brand that she launched at her company, Liloebe LLC, in 2003. She lived in Traverse City, Michigan from 2000-2007 and is now back in Los Angles. Her husband Robert Hughes owns the animation company Lincoln Butterfield. Lawerence asks if anything interesting happened and they all stare at each other and Ferb just sezs that Jane Eyre is being offed as we zoom out to a far shot as we see the Queen robot flying in the background to the west. Yeah; whatever. That ends the episode at 12:00 approx. Logic breaks aside; this was a really fine episode, mostly for Candace's gravity defying bump machine moments. *** (60%).
I, Brobot : We begin this one with an awkward sky shot of the backyard as Phineas & Ferb are at the tree with various blueprints and paper surrounding them. Phineas is looking for candidates on what awesome thing to do today. One involves a food based water park, a schemetic for getting to the center of the Earth (shown on a laptop), a chamber that allows invisiblity (as shown in a scale model made of wood and metal), a schemetic for a microscopic zoo that rests on a head of a pin (shown on a laptop). Then they realize that they have too many blueprints and suddenly a leaf falls down and the music they play for this sounds like stock music used in Quack Pack/Goof Troop/Darkwing Duck. Phineas realizes that summer will not last forever and either they make more summer days or more of them. So Ferb shows Phineas what we would see as blueprints for robots. Phineas calls him a genius as they'll make Phinedroids and Ferbots. This sounds like a disaster looking for a place to happen as Phineas asks where Perry is barely a minute into this. So we pan northwest to the roof as we see Perry put his Agent P hat on and press bricks to reveal a chimney that doubles as an elevator. Perry gets inside as we hear that the elevator music for this is Coocie-Coocie Goo. Yeah; it's a popular song in this show; and then Santa shows up telling Perry to hold the elevator despite the fact that it's almost September in the time line. Must be School Supply Santa. AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! He's voiced by Dan by the way. Perry does the teeth smile and then get out of the Chimneyvator and heads to the seat in front of the giant screen of OWCA as Monogram tells us that Doofen is up to his old tricks again. His crime this time: Making 57 phone calls in the last hour. Perry points to the Chimney elevator and Mongram assures him that it's not Santa. Perry must figure out who is calling and stop him as Perry leaves. Mongram blows off Karl for installing that elevator and then blows off Santa as we discover that Monogram has a personal grunge against Santa, because he didn't get a pony when he was five years old. What a crybaby?!
So we head to the Flynn-Fletcher garage as we see that they have already produced a robot building device that looks so ab libbed; Gadget can BE JEALOUS! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...So we pan over to Phineas typing a few commands on a black computer screen. I am disappointed that the Flynn-Fletchers are so cheap that they are still using a monochrome CRT monitor. You would think they would have upgraded to a monochrome LCD monitor or something. So apparently; this computer has a built in scanner which Phineas uses to scan photos of Phineas & Ferb which we see on the screen as the screen is now a color screen. So it's a 1902A monitor from the Commodore 128 days? Nice. And it speaks too as we begin the robot building sequence. We zoom out to notice a locker with tape, a recycle symbol on the front and a red siren light on top. And then we discover that they are using the locker instead of the Gadget built device; calling it a dinosaur. How dare you Phineas?! Sure; Gadget was on a show in 1989; but that's not her fault that the Aussie Stereotype ruined it all for us! Cut her some slack you goofy Deltahead moron! I am so back into my old fartdom mood today. So we see a bunch of robots looking like Phineas & Ferb which sadly Ferb's nose is a soda can. Phineas orders them to get a blueprint and report to the backyard at once. Phineas then gets on Ferb's case because the music stopped. See; Phineas is using a bullhorn and Ferb did not turn his on. Ferb turns his one on and the music continues playing in the background. I don't get that one; sorry. Ferb then brings out a remote control and switches it from marching to dancing and then we hit the montage! So the Assorted Phinedroids & Ferbots are voiced by Danny & Arron Daniel Jacob. Arron according to IMDB: Aaron Daniel Jacob is a voice actor/singer and filmmaker. He got his start in the fine arts participating in various musical theatre programs. Performances include productions at Chaminade College Prep, CSUNs Teenage Drama Workshop, and the Youth Musical Theatre Community Group in Woodland Hills.
Jacob's film studies began as a freshman in high school, driving him to actively produce short films on his own time. His film Mental Intervention received three awards at the Chaminade Film Festival, the most decorated film there; Best Supporting Actor for Trevor James, Best Original Score, and Best Narrative Film. His films Nowhere Fast and Danny Greene both received honorable mentions at the LA Movie Awards. His professional work includes being a vocalist and voice actor on the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb and Disney Junior's Sofia the First, as well as other various shows. He is a film student at New York University Tisch, and strives to enter into the business as a career, hoping to juggle roles both in front of and behind the camera. He also hopes to keep stage acting as much as he can, as it has been with him longer than anything else. He resides in New York, NY where he is an undergraduate at NYU studying Film and TV Production. Arron has seven acting credits: Danny Greene, Classroom 216, Mental Intervention, Why? (Arron) and Nowhere Fast. Phineas & Ferb is his DTVA debut and has also appeared on Sofia The First. Other credits include: Last Seen, Revisited and his most recent credit The Hunted. Yeah; mostly behind the scenes work. Danny is mostly a music composer with some similar credits to Aaron; however, has also done soundtracks for Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Sonny With A Chance, Brother Bear 2, Leroy & Stitch, Planes, Shrek, Pursuit of Happiness and Almost Famous. Kim Possible is his DTVA debut and he has appeared in Lilo & Stitch The Series, The Buzz on Maggie, The Emperors New Sckool and Sofia The First which is his most recent credit. He has 16 soundtrack credits, 7 music department credits, two acting credits, one writing credit and one Self credit to his resume. So we do a silly robot song and dance routine which I am not going to call. It ends with Ferb changing the remote switch to work and we go word. Don't care; it wasn't all that good. Mr. Roboto cannot be topped.
So we scene change to a far shot of Doofenshmirtz's Evil Inc building which is the only building with a dome on top. And yes folks; this gets a jingle chant as well. So we head into a purple walled, purple floored (purple carpet) hallway with green diamond lights and a green door with a gray D on the door. That looks awkward; which is fitting considering that Doofen is yelling at someone on the phone to answer the damn phone. So Perry casually goes to the door and has a key. He unlocks the door and we head inside to see Doofen sitting in a retro red chair on his white cellphone; and he just turns around and admits that he basically gave the key to him. That makes no sense! Then we discover that he did it because he hates Perry crashing through his ceiling. What a dick this Perry fellow is? He should be on TaleSpin; but that show is buried so HUZZAH! Doofen walks to him and basically states that he has no idea why Monogram is after him; but he isn't doing anything evil because he is merely calling his girlfriend. Yeah; Perry is like some corrupt FBI agent or something; because they do this all the time too. Apparently; this friendship is already on the rocks as Doofen is tired of sending messages to her. So then; it's almost worth it because we discover that Doofen's room is completely green in almost every respect; and then we see a computer which the screen shows a giant powerful magnet on a crane over a house. Perry notices it and Doofen claims that this is not an evil scheme; it's just a giant magnet that he is using over the girl's house because he is going to erase messages from the answering machine because they are long and rambley. I assure you Doof that they are less long and rambley than my own rants considering that it takes six hours to do every episode. Perry is not amused of Doof breaking an ordiance (which Doofen admits that he's doing mind you) and Perry does the Gruffi pose. Oh SNAP! Doofen is now angry and he manages to net Perry again and then leaves, accusing him of not knowing true love. I cannot say that with a straight face even if I tried. That was dumb.
So we see Doofen in the background through a window driving a cheese colored crane device driving away stage left as Doofen mocks Perry. Then we head back to the house and into the living room as Candace is talking to Stacey on the green loveseat complaining about watching the boys while Linda goes to Zippy Pics. She wants to do ear piercing with Stacey; and don't worry, we'll see Stacey soon enough. Just not in this episode though. So she notices Phinedroid #1 and #2 holding a ladder; and she is about to claim that it's Phineas and Ferb; but stops and thinks there are two Phineas. So Candaces tells Stacey to call back and then marches out proclaiming that she is going to really bust them this time; and then is SHOCKED and APPALLED because there are robots everywhere doing the projects Phineas & Ferb wanted done earlier. Candace starts to panic as her brothers are now robots and she calls them brobots. Yeah. Candace screams and runs into the house towards the basement and into a wooden toy box; and down a ladder while B-level horror music plays. This proves to be a segueway to the front counter of Zippy Pics as we see Linda in the foreground on her cell phone talking to Candace. Yeah; she ran all the way below a toy box in the basement just to call her mom. That is the epitome of overreacting. What possible harm can a Phinedroid and Ferbot do to her? I also discover on the sign that black and white photo cost six dollars more than 24 color prints. That is a ripoff! We then discover that Candace is in the panic room (with a lovely picture frame of the name of room using plastic canvas and yarn; which is a neat detail) with a roughed up teddy bear (talk about foreshadowing here) looking like she just got scared to death by something. Ashleys' acting is so hilarious that it's clear Linda is not buying this crap; so she basically tells her that the pictures will soon be ready and she'll be home to see those awful robots. So Linda hangs up as Candace panics because once she gets home; the robots will be gone as per the reset button. So the writers are fully aware that this plotline is too obvious here. The roughed up bear is Mr. Miggins by the way.
However; Candace has a Krackpotkin plan as she grabs a potato sack, a gas can and a blue football helmet. We cut to outside as Ferbot #Whocares walks towards the gas can sitting in front of the door leading to the celler. I'm guessing this is the exit for the panic room; because Candace pops up with a football helmet on and kidnaps the Ferbot and puts it in the potato sack. Okay; that is not stupid. Now the smart thing to do is take the robot to her room; disable it and then wait until her mom gets home and show it to her. That way; Linda has to entertain the thought that Phineas & Ferb are behind this thing. You know what Candace does here? She walks to the sidewalk and then answers the phone while putting the bag on the sidewalk. Stacey is apparently having mommy issues because she's crying and it hurts a lot. Meanwhile; as this is going on, a garbage truck arrives and puts the Ferbot bag into the back. Candace deserves every punishment and mental illness treatment she gets after this one. She is THAT dumb. She is really stupid and no one has learned anything. Fitting for such a pointless spot. Then we discover Candace is talking to Stacey's mother Mrs. Hirano as we discover that she's crying because she got her ears pierced. What a crybaby indeed?! While this is going on; a Fertilizer truck arrives and the back opens as a bald man in an orange shirt and gray pants plops a bag of fertilizer onto the sidewalk; which is the same kind of sack Candace used to kidnap that Ferbot. Yeah; what an idiot?! To make matters worse; the bag has the logo of Fred's Fertilizer. And then I just realized that in A Touch Of Glass; the fertilizer salesman that came in at the beginning of the episode was also named Fred. Small world isn't it? And she finally hangs up and doesn't even bother to notice the logo on the front; even though she is clearly in the line of sight to see it, as she goes to the back of the bag and kicks the bag talking about Stacey's issues. Idiots!
So we return to Doctor Doofenshmirtz's Evil Inc building with heavenly angel hymms in the background. So we go inside to Doof's apartment as Perry brings out some cheese whiz in a spray can and sprays the rope attached to the net. Then we cut to a hole in the wall as a white mouse walks in and then somehow teleports to on the rope and licks the cheese whiz; and then bites through the ropes. Ho hum; a logic break. So we head back to the backyard as the Phinedroids and Ferbots are finishing up the Invisibility Chamber. Phineas & Ferb walk in asking how the progress is going on said device and we get a demonstration and it works perfectly. Phineas claims that it's weird saying it to a Ferbot as we go to the microscopic zoo on a pinhead and we see through the giant microscope (which Ferb holds the ladder steady) a zoo and a wooden fence and a newspaper dispenser with the newspaper heading reading: Zoo turns in record profit. That makes no sense. So we continue seeing the bots building the hole and a ladder for the journey to the center of the earth. Phineas is happy to see this; but then turns somber. See; he is glad for these projects being done; but would like to get back to doing their own projects. So a Phinedroid comes in on a rocket lawn chair and gives the blueprints to Phineas. Phineas complains about this because it was supposed to be built next week. Phineas then becomes appalled because the droids are now building projects on their own free will and references that they have learned nothing from Frankenstein. You know; I wish The Creature was not in the public domain, because I would pay my good money to hear Phineas say "We learned nothing from the Auto Aviator!". I mean; they are now like the AA from From Here To Machinery; only these droids have actual AI and much more tunnel vision than the Auto Aviator does. I know this because they built an overpiced coffee shop in the backyard. That made me laugh. Even funnier: Phineas calls this so 1990's. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. So then we see Candace sitting on the sidewalk on the side while she can clearly see the logo. This is idiotic now.
So we head back into the backyard as the boys have their laptop; and they have a brand new problem. See; the robots have drank too much coffee and their circuits have gone haywire. HAHA! This show IS cribbing from From Here To Machinery. Good for them even if Candace is a total doofus in this episode. So we see one of them trying to sleep; but the alarm clock ticking is brothering him. So Phineas & Ferb are finally angry (what is this about Phinea having only one emotion (happiness) again?) and shuts down the coffee shop. UH OH! That is a no no Phineas! The robots turn around and give off yellow glowing eyes and start to stalk Phineas & Ferb. Phineas & Ferb go to their laptop and attempt to go to the kill switch; but the robots no sell it and surround the boys. Yeap; the robots are large and in charge now. Again; unlike Armstrong, the robots are not evil, they are just simply pissed off at Phineas & Ferb for denying them their coffee, which can piss off grown adult babyfaces! So we cut to the street with the cheese crane driven by Doofenshmirtz and we finally come to one of those moment where the Disney BS&P was completely asleep at the wheel: The radio is on and Doofen is singing a song. The chorus is Bow Chica Bow-Wow! Yes folks; Private Tucker has made an appearance in this show. Doesn't Disney realize that this is a porno promo? I'll let Sophia from Penny Farthling's blog explain my feelings as well:
The pitricisaltation occurred, I think, when the otherwise utterly forgettable Phineas and Ferb had a song, rather in the vein of the "witch doctor" song, with the title, and oft-repeated refrain, "Bow Chicka Bow Wow." Because everyone knows Private Tucker is a role model, right, and his catch-phrase should be played ad nauseam on Radio Disney, right? What's next, a Jonas Brothers anthem about eating people's hearts and crapping out their souls, making them taste oblivion (which tastes just like Red Bull...which is disgusting)? The cast of High School Musical doing a number about how, when Grif gets shot by Doc, he should try to steer his dismembered limbs so they clog up the barrel of his rocket launcher? - Sophia, Lady Wisdom.
All I can say is: DON'T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS! You know what's funny about this? Private Tucker is still less disturbing than "The Weiner Is In The Snitchel" promo from Dumptruck in Ransom Of The Red Chimp. Be afraid my friends, be afraid. So Doof is heading straight for his girlfriend's house which has been pinkified; thus she is a rigid gender role girlfriend. The human version of Shellsea? Nah...We need a disco jackhammer spot in order to prove that. So Doofen is forced to stop because Perry is in the middle of the street with his spy badge invoking the LEGAL HAND OF GOD. Doofen asks how the hell he got out of the net? Answer: You have a mouse problem Doof. Even Doof realizes this; so you know this is silly. Doof then threatens to squash Perry with the giant magnet and Perry just stands his ground. So Doofen quotes a lazy tailor and tells him to suit himself and flicks the switch. The manget comes down and then it's shadow moves about 100 feet to the south of Perry. Perry looks up and we see that the magnet attached to the under rails of Santa's sleigh as Santa and his reindeer are flying away waving at the hard camera. HAHA! This made more sense than Candace kidnapping a Ferbot; so get real old farts! Doof then points out the logical fallacy of this moment; but he can kiss my ass. He deserves that moment for thinking that listening to Private Tucker promos are manly. Santa claims he's on a summer run and waves goodbye as Doofen is Scrooge tonight. Yeah. So the robots surround Phineas & Ferb in the backyard as Phineas holds onto Ferb; and then Ferb brings out the remote control as Phineas claims he was ribbing him. Riiiiggggghhhhttttt Phineas. This is all just a big fat rib. Ferb switches the robot to dance mode and we start up the Phinedroid and Ferbot dance sequence again as they do their shutdown sequence which Candace blows off because 1980's music is so 2002. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments.
So Linda has finally arrives in the driveway and comes out as Candace shows her the bag and opens it. Of course Linda calls this a nice bag of manure which shocks Candace and makes her scream. Apparently; Linda is so shocked by this screen; she drops her pictures. Linda blows off Candace as Candace bails to the front gate and notices that the robots are still dancing inside the backyard. Candace runs to get Linda and then Santa's sleigh comes in (with a giant magnet mind you) and takes all the robots away from the backyard just as the two boys are dancing. Great spot as Candace brings her mother to the front gate and claims that she has does this 19 times already. That is not a good way to convince someone that you are not insane Candace. The gate opens and there is Phineas & Ferb dancing the robot which Linda in a deadpan voice states that they are. HAHA! Word. Fade to black and we go to the ED. This ending involves Linda asking the kids if they would like to see the pictures. As she walks in; one of the pictures drops onto the ground. Candace is outside the gate; sitting down looking defeated. The picture somehow floats into the garage and lands on the scanner of the computer. We discover from the computer that it is a photo of Candace. Candace walks to the garage door and notices a robot modeled after her and she calls it a Candaroid. HAHA! Candaces screams; she runs around in a circle about three times around Linda, Phineas & Ferb and then runs into the house, basement, toy box, ladder, panic room. She screams some more and then we zoom out a bit to see Candaroid sucking her thumb with Mr. Miggins. HAHA! Candaces stops screaming and steals back Mr. Miggins and blows off the robot. That was funny and fitting for her own stupidity. That ends the episode at 12:00 approx. Fun episode with a lot of stupidity and metal sounding robots. You would think that Private Tucker would have killed this series; but it only made it stronger in hindsight. And what happened to Doof and Perry after this? I hate hanging plot threads. Call it *** 1/2 (70%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Just a bunch of middling shorts this time around. A Hard Days Knight is basically a Phineas & Ferb episode in England; with some dark ages spots that looked all right. Candace was absolutely the funniest bump machine in the series which is good in one sense; but a little distressing in another sense. The whole EvilCon thing was pointless because there was no reason for Perry to go after Doofenshmirtz here as Doof wasn't going to do anything evil other than go to a convention. Sure; some of the moments were nice and funny, but they were ultimately pointless. I, Brobot was better and the From Here To Machinery vibes were really impressive here. At least Doof was doing something evil to someone here; even if it is so petty like erasing messages from an answering machine; which the girlfriend probably already erased, or took the messages down on paper. The Santa spots were also silly; but they made sense for the plot to work as well as the finish. Candace was an idiot in this one as she had a perfect plan to bust the boys; but was stupid enough to wait on the sidewalk and talk to her friend on the phone. The ending was great and fitting for her as least. Everything else was standard Phineas & Ferb stuff; and hopefully, the adults of these kids watching this show realize what that refrain comes from and complain to the 700 Club about it. Sadly; I doubt they will because even they think the 700 Club has a dirty mind. Like Private Tucker and Dumptruck. So next up is It's A Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World and The Ballard of Badbeard. YAY! So....
Thumbs in the middle for both shorts and I'll see you all next time.